When she returns home, Peter Hastings, with whom she is romantically involved, telephones Dr. Cole to say that he and his friend Madeline Tilliard have been poisoned by strychnine in their drinks.

Florence tells local reporter Dennis Willows that Madeline and an unknown man were blackmailing her.

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "An unpretentious mystery story which begins slowly but works up to an unexpected and effective climax.

Character drawing is fair, with a reliable performance by Russell Napier as the police inspector, and there are a few tense moments.

"[3] Kine Weekly wrote: "Tin-pot British whodunnit ...leading and supporting characters, taken from stock only lightly dusted, are clumsily drawn and deployed.